'Some time this terrible war will be over. Surely the time will come when we are people again, and not just Jews.'

'The sun is shining, the sky is a deep blue, there is a lovely breeze and I'm longing, so longing - for everything. To talk, for freedom, for friends, to be alone.'

'Dear Kitty, extraordinary things can happen to people who go into hiding.'

'After May, 1940, good times rapidly fled: first the war, then the capitulation, followed by the arrival of the Germans. That is when the sufferings of us Jews really began...'